Who We Are
CPM Educational Program’s mission is to empower mathematics students and teachers through exemplary curriculum, professional development, and leadership. Our teacher-supporting, student-centered, problem-based classroom solutions for grades 6–12 foster engagement and equity in the classroom, while we strive to cultivate these same values within our workplace culture.
Your Role at a Glance
The Professional Learning Specialist is a full-time, exempt, role (California Only) that reports to the Customer Success Manager in the Professional Learning department.
This position is responsible for serving as a mentor for teachers implementing the CPM curriculum materials. This position is full time and 100% remote with travel to events required. In person professional learning events and school visits may occur at work sites away from the home office up to 75% of the annualized work weeks with the other work time being conducted from a home office.
Your Day-to-Day Contributions
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Facilitate professional learning.
- Conduct effective CPM workshops using the agendas.
- Maintain accurate attendance records.
- Complete and submit reports after each workshop day.
- Communicate with participants preceding and following a workshop.
- Conduct Implementation Support Visits.
- Serve as the Implementation Partner for sites when assigned.
- Facilitate online professional learning opportunities.
- Work may occur at remote sites more than 75% of the annualized workweeks.
- Conduct effective CPM workshops using the agendas.
- Create professional learning content.
- Develop content for asynchronous and synchronous learning modules and corresponding agendas.
- Create site support resources.
- Create content for additional projects as assigned.
- Serve as a role model and representative for CPM.
- Represent CPM at local and regional conferences as assigned.
- Conduct CPM program overview presentations for schools and districts as assigned.
- Present sessions or staff the booth at conferences as assigned.
- Attend internal professional learning sessions offered by CPM.
- Regional Support Specialist duties as assigned.
- CPM Instructional Coach duties as assigned.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Additional responsibilities aligned with the needs of the organization.
Your Background and Expertise
To thrive in this role, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Education and/or Experience: Bachelor’s degree from four-year college or university; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Key Competencies: High level of integrity, industriousness, and passion for transforming education. Exceptional time management, prioritization, and organizational skills. Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Language Skills: Fluency in English. Ability to communicate successfully when collaborating with coworkers. Ability to take written and/or verbal instruction.
- Mathematical Skills: Ability to perform basic mathematics for the courses they will offer support for in workshops or classrooms.
- Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Computer Skills: An individual should have knowledge of Google Workspace. Knowledge of basic office equipment should include: Internet, email, telephone, and computers. Ability to learn to use unfamiliar software.
- Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: A current driver’s license and proof of auto insurance are required if driving for work.
- Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required throughout the workday to sit or stand at a computer; use legs to stand and walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, and crouch.
Your Work Arrangement and Travel Expectations
- Remote Environment: Work in a quiet environment, both collaboratively and independently, across various time zones. Demonstrate flexibility in scheduling to facilitate effective collaboration without direct supervision.
- Travel Expectations: This position is full time and 100% remote with travel to events required. In person professional learning events and school visits may occur at work sites away from the home office up to 75% of the annualized work weeks with the other work time being conducted from a home office.
Your Well-Being at Work
Benefits Overview: CPM offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support employee well-being and financial security:
- Medical: Covers full premiums for employees and partial for dependent(s). Includes a High-Deductible Health Plan paired with a Health Savings Account (HSA), featuring fixed contributions per pay period into employee HSA accounts.
- Dental and Vision: Covers part of dental and vision premiums for employees.
- Life and Disability Insurance: Fully covers term life insurance and long-term disability insurance. Employees may opt for short-term disability coverage through post-tax payroll deductions.
- Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity: We offer multiple plans that employees can choose from to fit their needs, including accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity plans offered by Cigna.
- Health and Flexible Savings Accounts (HSA/FSA): Includes employer contributions to HSA, with voluntary employee funding options. FSA provides pre-tax deduction benefits for eligible expenses funded by the employee.
- Paid Leave: Generous sick leave is provided to all employees; personal leave provided to full-time employees only. Volunteerism leave is accessible to full-time employees after completing one year of service.
- Paid Parental Leave: This benefit provides generous paid leave to eligible employees following the birth, adoption, or placement of a child.
- Holidays: Includes office closures for major holidays and includes a winter break from December 22 to January 4.
- Retirement Savings: Matches employee 401(k) contributions up to 5% once eligibility requirements are met.
- Phone/Internet Reimbursement: Offers a flat reimbursement for employee phone/internet expenses.
- The Extras: Provides additional perks, such as discounts and services for laser vision correction, hearing aids, EAP, teeth whitening, travel assistance, will preparation, legal document drafting, and identity theft awareness and prevention.